existence the day I entered it‚ was vibrantly real while I was a student there‚ and then blinked out like a candle the day I left." Helping embellish this reality were his friends‚ including Leper Lepellier‚ who appeared in only five scenes in A Separate Peace. Elwin "Leper" Lepellier’s role as a minor character was vital to the story‚ although not nearly as visible as Gene’s or Finny’s. His appearances stole the attention of the reader‚ altered each character’s own perceptions
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File under: #poem Peace Not War (Speech Choir Piece) PEACE NOT WAR by Patricia Lithuanian Boom! Blood Flesh Struggle and Fear surrounding in the Atmosphere If one is sulky one is scorned if one is not a noble one is a peasant there are drugs‚ abuses‚ hex and injustice and the only thing that rules the earth is immorality Shhhhhh! silence! for the end may come voices are not made to speak the truth but to shout and scream eyes are not made to see the reality but to hide the
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" It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities‚ but wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." The background of "A separate Peace" is the Second World War and the focus of book is a group of sixteen-year-old boys who are moving towards a war. The extract comes from the end of the book where Due to what Gene had done to Finny‚ he has been made to look at himself and now sees the war differently from the other boys. Gene has been
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Islam: A religion of Peace and Community Brian J Cobb As I stepped into the home‚ I immediately began to feel welcomed. I entered the home of the parents of one of my wife’s students to learn about their culture. Having an interest in learning more about Islam and Muslims‚ I had arranged to meet and sit down for an evening in an open discussion about both our cultures and religions. I wanted know how they were the same‚ and how they differed. This was the start to a long‚ deep‚ and one of
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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A Separate Peace-John Knowles The novel A Separate Peace is a story about two best friends‚ Gene and Phineas (Finny)‚ who both attend the Devon school in New Hampshire in 1942. Gene Forrester is an intellectual‚ confined‚ straight-laced seventeen year old‚ while Finny is an athletic free-spirit who isn’t afraid to say what he thinks and is admired by everyone. The story is a flashback in which Gene recalls his fears and insecurities during the midst of the Second World War at the Devon school
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Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe: Summary The well-known Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s short story ’Civil Peace’ is a realistic story which presents the condition immediately after the Civil War. The story is about a Biafran civil war and its effect on the lives of ordinary Nigerian people. Chinua Achebe It is an interesting and touching comment on quick and easy recovery from hardship after the war. Most people are damaged by the aftereffects of the war‚ but Jonathan Iwegbu thinks himself very lucky
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JOY FROM PEACE WITH OTHERS I. Introduction In today’s society‚ it is an “all about me” world. Everywhere you turn‚ from TV commercials to t-shirt messages to Facebook‚ the sentiment is the same to “do whatever you want” or “look at me” or just “pamper yourself-you deserve it.” The world tells you to promote yourself and your desires. There is no focus to help others or strive together with others. Despite all of this self-gratification‚ many people‚ including some Christians‚ are surprisingly
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Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden is set in 1930s Japan‚ the theme of war and peace is developed through Character interaction. Characters in the story have very different reactions to the same circumstances. Through the character of Stephen‚ one can conclude that outside forces do not control a person’s life because in life‚ people can take what has been given to them and do with it what they wish. In other words‚ life is what you make of it. Even though the war in China is very important
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War I caused mass devastation to the world. The lives taken by the war included a total of about 16.5 million civilian and soldier casualties and about 20 million wounded persons. The ramifications of the war were dealt with through the creation of peace treaties and armistices. This includes‚ but‚ is not limited to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine‚ The Treaty of Sèvres‚ and the Treaty of Versailles. When focusing on the Treaty of Versailles‚ it was due to the strength of liberal and conservative forces
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